Income variables and the measures of gains from crime

John Chisholm and Chongwoo Choe

Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, vol. 57, issue 1, 112-119

Abstract: There is ambiguity in the empirical studies of crime economics regarding various income variables used to proxy the expected net gains from crime. As a result, the empirical findings are often mixed or contradictory to one another. This note provides a theoretical argument that relates the net expected gains from crime to a measure of income inequality (the Gini coefficient) and the mean income of a society, thereby clarifying the ambiguity. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2005
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